 Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that...  Elements of Criticism - Page 219by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 534 pages
...pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg I No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. 'What is in that word, honour? What is that honour?... | |
 | William Richardson - Characters and characteristics in literature - 1812 - 468 pages
...by no higher principle than sensual appetite, we might accede to his reasoning : — Can honour set a leg? No: or an arm? No: or take away the grief of a wound? No: honour hath no skill in surgery then » No. Thus while the speaker, in expressing his real sentiments, affects a playful... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 454 pages
...Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? How then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ^ No. What is honour i A word. What is in that word, honour ? What is that honour?... | |
 | Charles Johnson - Brigands and robbers - 1813 - 556 pages
...Honour pricks n\e on. But how, if honour pricks me off, when I come on ? How then, can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then ? No. What is honour ? a word. What is that word honour ? air, a trimreckoning.... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...honor pricks me on. — But how, if honor prick me off when I come on ? How then ? Can honor set to a leg ? No ; or an arm ? no ; or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honor hath no skill in surgery, then ? No. What is honor ? A word. What is that word honor ? Air ;... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 428 pages
...matter, Honcur pricks me on. But how if Honour prick me off, when 1 come on? how then? Can Honour seta leg? No: or an arm? No: or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour ? A -word. — What is that word tumour? Air; a trim reckoning.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 478 pages
...Honour pricks me on. Yea, but bow if honour prick me off when I come on :' how then '. Can honour set to a leg ' No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wonnd? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour ? A word. What is in that word,... | |
 | 1818 - 384 pages
...Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me oft when I come on ? How then ? Can honour set a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief ota wound? No. What is honour? A word," &c. Moliere seems to have had his eye on this passage, when... | |
 | Mrs. Ross, Author of The balance of comfort - English fiction - 1819 - 270 pages
...on. Yea ! but how if honour slu ni 111 prick me off, when 1 come on ! how then ? Can honour set-to a leg? no ; — or an arm? no ; — or take away the grief of a wound ? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then ? SHAKSPIARK. SIR Thomas Clervaux left the mansion of Lady Jane Lorn, and proceeded... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 pages
...Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me oft' when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour?... | |
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